Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adj] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh , we all knew it was him with his stout legs and big arse , but everyone became involved in the pantomime . |
| 2 | ‘ Why me ? ’ he asks Phil Schaffer , as the two of them sit late in Indian restaurants , eating blazing vindaloos after watching old Humphrey Bogart movies at cinemas beyond the railway sidings , on autumn nights when each sodium light has a yellow halo in the foggy air . |
| 3 | Ronan was entertaining them ; he was a good mimic and this time he was doing a fussy Brother in the school trying to get everyone to sit still in the big hall for a lecture . |
| 4 | Let me phrase these in terms of my criteria of necessity , sufficiency and specificity . |
| 5 | One of them got lost in the corridors and another dropped some important equipment into the sea . |
| 6 | And eleven of them got involved in a fist fight in the middle of one of those New York streets . |
| 7 | We can add also to the fact that fifteen billion dollars a year right , is lost by er third country exporters , alright so we still add another fifteen on there per year that is erm errr oh yes , same study again erm suggest that in nineteen eighty six , eighty seven the year they look looking at , over forty percent , right of support to U S farmers , forty percent , nearly half of all support to U S farmers , quote merely offset the losses created by policies of other industrialised countries alright so nearly half of the support given to farmers in the U S alright we t to get them to stand still in in er in numerative terms , right . |
| 8 | Erm , I think it 's probably inevitable but most of the Republics will become independent , but I think the idea of them becoming independent in their present borders is very worrying indeed cos that , most of the borders are grossly irrational and becoming independent with those borders ethnic conflicts built into it , erm , and I think unless there 's some sort of er negotiations about what border these countries will have before they become inde independent , we could see quite a lot of bloodshed . |
| 9 | After planting they quickly build up into permanent perennial clumps and nothing looks finer in summer than to see them planted in association with a garden pool or other water garden feature . |
| 10 | Being aware of the stress and pressure that many people and their families experience when AIDS or HIV is first diagnosed , I became involved in counselling . |
| 11 | Being aware of the stress and pressures that many people and their families experience with AIDS or HIV is first diagnoses , I became involved in counselling . |
| 12 | Brathay Women 's Institute decided to work on Spinning Galleries , and as I am a spinner and weaver and at that time was a member of the Institute , I became involved in the search for galleries . |
| 13 | The more I became involved in the executive work of CBC the less I liked it , but the more I worked with Ira Dilworth the more I liked him . |
| 14 | Before I became involved in business , I really had very few goals — with the result that I did n't get very far . |
| 15 | In leaving home I became involved in student union politics , particularly round the issue of overseas students . |
| 16 | The main reason I became involved in birds of prey was to teach them to hunt for me — and of course for themselves — so a goshawk is a must for the near future . |
| 17 | Consequently I became involved in various meetings between the union and the representatives of the television companies , particularly a very long one at my home in Ashley Gardens , where Harold Wilson was invited to attend and indeed did so . |
| 18 | For the first time , but by no means the last , I became involved in that Kafkaesque bureaucratic fog which , more than any aspect of public life , serves to drain one of psychic energy . |
| 19 | ‘ And I became worthless in my own eyes . |
| 20 | ‘ It was discovered I 'd had an acute infection for two or three months , ’ she says , ‘ which meant I was ill when I became pregnant in November — the worst possible time for a developing foetus . |
| 21 | I became catholic in my lusts . |
| 22 | Mary Tupholme at the BAAB and the immigration people were really helpful , and I became naturalized in about two weeks . |
| 23 | I became old in instants and everything today is bland and lucid . |
| 24 | By half-term I weighed seven stone nine pounds , and I suspect it was only then that I became weight-conscious in the literal sense . |
| 25 | This survey , as so often happens , led from one thing to another , and I became interested in vernacular architecture and the people of the area , particularly in their work and homes over the changing years . |
| 26 | It was through her that I became interested in life . |
| 27 | Some twenty-five years later , when I became interested in hypnosis and then in regression therapy , I began to wonder whether my earlier fascination was because I had actually lived in Tudor times . |
| 28 | It may sound strange , but I became interested in her . |
| 29 | Through this experience I became interested in the mechanisms of contemporary of Mori 's ‘ composite card ’ . |
| 30 | I spent a great deal of time with housemasters ( see Chapter 22 ) and hence I became interested in the kinds of problems they encountered and began to follow-up the children I saw regularly in their offices . |